Alex Broudy (sentiniente)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Intrinsically, I'm a humanist and my core values follow suit.
As an undergrad, I work toward a degree in cognitive linguistics and admit to intellectual dorkdom.
Growing up as an isolated American lured me to study foreign languages, cultures, and values.
While infinite perspective fascinat...

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Member since Aug 16, 2006, follows 17 people, 4 public groups, 80 public bookmarks (153 total).

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U.S. Is Urged to Lift Ban on Foreign Scholars - NYTimes.com on 2009-03-18
- Now, in a move leading up to that hearing, a coalition of academic and civil liberties groups is calling on the Obama administration to break with the Bush administration’s policies on blocking visas of some foreign scholars, writers and activists.
- the coalition says so-called ideological exclusion “compromises the vitality of academic and political debate in the United States at a time when that debate is exceptionally important.”
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- - The groups claimed that they had a First Amendment right to hear Professor Ramadan, who had visited the United States dozens of times in the years before his visa was blocked.
  - Then, after the suit was filed, the government argued that from 1998 to 2002, Professor Ramadan contributed about $1,300 to a charity in Switzerland that the Treasury Department later categorized as a terrorist organization. The charity, Association de Secours Palestinien, was a contributor to Hamas.
  - “It’s particularly critical that we have access to the views of moderates in the Muslim world.”
  - “The government shouldn’t have that power,” Mr. Jaffer said, “and under the First Amendment it doesn’t.”
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